Word: entrepreneur
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There are now no fewer than 786 electronics firms in the fertile valley at the foot of the Diablo Range. In 1980 they produced $8.7 billion worth of goods. The American Alliance for Innovation now gives two-day seminars on marketing strategies and venture capital for hopeful entrepreneurs. Says William Hambrecht, a San Francisco investment banker whose firm, Hambrecht & Quist, helped launch Apple Computer and Genentech: "Being a successful entrepreneur here is one of the most privileged positions in today's world...
...mere presence of so many profitable businesses leads to the creation of still more companies. The entrepreneur has become the local cultural hero and role model, just as movie directors are in Los Angeles or oil drillers in Houston. Nearly everybody knows someone who left a company and started...
...antihandgun sentiment in Morton Grove was latent until an entrepreneur announced last spring that he was opening a gun shop in town. That prospect galvanized the trustees. "I'm just against guns," says Sneider. "It's a deep conviction of mine." Says fellow Village Trustee Neil Cashman, who wrote the law against possession: "I was sick and tired of reading about handgun deaths." Three years ago, a pair of local teenage girls were murdered in a Morton Grove woods, both shot to death with a handgun...
Rarely is a practicing journalist acquainted with all of the principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side...
With all the new snow on the ground, wouldn't you rather be skiing? Rumor has it that the Harvard Entrepreneur Club is considering chartering a bus to escort students in Fine Arts 175a direct from their final on Friday afternoon to the slopes in Vermont. Night skiing, anyone...